R.E.S.T, the King of Commodities. Theories, Goals, and Reality

As defined by the medical community, the term "exceptional survival" is
living to a specified age (75, 80, 85, or 90 years) without incidence of major
chronic disease and without physical or cognitive impairment.

In the trading and investment arena one might characterize such survival as
producing positive absolute returns over a multi-decade time horizon without
incidence of a major losing year and without drawing down one's accounts
to the point of impairment. (Think "Risk of Ruin," the point at
which your account can no longer raise margin to trade.)

From the perspective of a pragmatic strategy trader, the medical term struck
a chord as a viable input variable relative to what individuals are driven
to do with their Remaining Exceptional Survival Time or R.E.S.T as we've
coined it.

We all want as much R.E.S.T as humanly possible

From a strategic point of view, we realized that additional input variables
would be needed to round out the R.E.S.T input. Two that came to immediate
mind were a legacy directive and resource input.

One's legacy directive is tied to what one is motivated to accomplish
within their remaining exceptional survival time. The resource input
calibrates the basic essential elements required to achieve one's legacy
goals within their R.E.S.T period.

R.E.S.T - (est. # years)

Legacy - (your goals)

Resources - (needed to acquire goals)

Little R.E.S.T for the apprehensive

As with many real-time measures, each of the three inputs is variable and
subject to revision based upon dynamic factors that are at times beyond the
control of the individual.

So long as we don't get hit in the head with a debilitating wild pitch,
the exercise can go a long way in answering the essential question of what
one wants to do with the rest of their life and why.

Have you already succeeded in meeting your legacy directives? If not,
what's left to accomplish, and what resources will be needed in order
to achieve those directives?

That's life, and there's no denying it.

Eventually, each of us runs out of R.E.S.T, becomes ill, and then passes. Thereafter,
life goes on without us. All that remains from our former survival is
that which we've left behind in our wake.

Collectively, businesses, trusts, families, communities, cities, states, and
countries have an exceptional survival time far beyond that of any single individual. In
fact, if each of the individuals comprising their larger collectives lived
their lives with a robust and productive set of legacy directives, no matter
how long each single life endured, the collective should in theory be self
sustaining.

R.E.S.T (The most valuable commodity in the Universe)

In the grandest scheme of things, the planet we inhabit has its own R.E.S.T
period, therefore, Humanity's R.E.S.T is ultimately contingent upon the
species ability to outsmart Mother Nature in the race against time toward finding
an alternate means of survival once all of the Earth's resources are
depleted or naturally destroyed. (Think the Space Program, Mission Control,
and NASA)

Trivial Pursuit

Returning to more trivial matters, the recent threat of downgrade to US sovereign
debt is not news; nonetheless, the market provided its quintessential knee-jerk
reaction to the recent headline release.

The US continues to roll the dice on its R.E.S.T

In our view, the US has lost sight of its legacy directives, and in process
is quickly running out of a key financial resource (its projected income vs.
debt ratios) to sustain its exceptional existence. The concept and political
necessity to raise sovereign debt limits into virtual perpetuity is one that
is egregiously flawed, and one that is likely to end badly.

The good ole US of A keeps doubling down on losing bets simply because it
has had the luxury and power to get away with it for decades. The bill
for this severe misallocation and abuse of global stature is now coming due. The
continued willful ignorance in avoiding the elephant in the room greatly increases
the odds of the nation's risk of ruin.

We are at a point in history where one can seriously begin to question whether
or not the USA has indeed run out of R.E.S.T, and survives only on the life-support
rendered by those with the remaining powers to impose it. (Think Central
Banks in concert with powerful lobby groups that fund big, bloated, and broken
governments.)

Well, that's our big theory for today. It's simple, and
though it has no direct correlation with trading or investment strategies,
we hope you found it illuminating at some level. Theories are interesting
but the reality of price rules the day. Price rules every day, and all
of the time - end of story.

Bunk Theory - Day-to-Day Reality Rules

In our view, "theories" are entertaining and perhaps stimulating
on an intellectual level however, when it comes to putting on trades, you can
take all of your theories and flush 'em right down the toilet because
once your money is committed, all that counts is price, timing, entry and exit.

When, where, and why did you get "in", with what bias, and when,
where, and why will you get out - period. All of the clever anecdotes,
theories, and arguments go right out the window. In the thick of battle,
theories and interesting observations are useless fodder and an immense waste
of time, energy, and resources. It's that simple.

If you agree with our reality based approach, then you're going to like
Elliott Wave Technology's brand of theory-free market forecasting and
trading guidance.

Sure, we use the basic tenets of theories and technical analysis to frame
our perspective of the price action, but that's about as far as we go.

We don't waste valuable time producing reams of fundamental arguments
in attempt to justify or explain how these theories neatly fit all of the puzzle
pieces together in a logically argued package of compelling ideas.

By the time you digest such levels of entertainment and distraction you'll
find your trades that are aligned with those arguments are going deeper and
deeper into drawdown.

We have a different approach. Instead of trying to entertain, seduce,
and impress you with our clever theories and observations, we spend the bulk
of our free time productively developing investment and trading strategies
that prove to engage and capture price movement, lock-in profits, and mitigate
risk across a wide range of markets and timeframes.

Three for Three in the S&P

The chart above will close out this article with a quick behind the scenes
look at the results of our handy-work in developing one of the many short-term
trading strategy's we've constructed to engage the S&P at the
smallest degrees of trend.

Three trades in three days deliver 68-pts or $3400 in E-Mini profits per single
contract traded. We've become quite accustomed to taking the big
boys to the cleaners in such fashion without ever once having to explain or
theorize the reasons for each of our entries and exits. All of our trading
disciplines have been coded into our platform and execute automatically based
upon changing market conditions.

Bear in mind we code and apply similar types of trading strategies that engage
various markets at Minor, Intermediate, Primary, and Cycle degrees of trend. The
back tested results of each most certainly meet the market definition of exception
survival. Once you get with our programs, the R.E.S.T is easy.

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